Wyeast, one of the two biggest yeast farms catering to the commercial and home brewing pack have just announced their “Private Collection” or special edition yeasts for this (northern hemisphere) summer.To cut to the chase, this time around we’re getting a Rasenmaher Lagerbier yeast “an excellent choice for brewing your favourite low alcohol lawnmower beer”, which doesn’t tickle my fancy too much. The second is the Kolsch II yeast, which might be worth a whack. But more interesting to me is their Berliner-Weisse blend, which they haven’t offered for a few years.So this has me thinking. ?I’m going to fire up my first Berliner-Weisse, which will also be my first bug beer. The yeast blend contains a German ale strain, a Lacobacillus culture and a “unique” Brettanomyces strain. ?It’s got a 3-6 month turn around for a good sour flavour apparently, which considering it’s the middle of winter for us ...
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